Never Did I Think. . . .
When I was a child in elementary school – that was a long time ago. I am 78 years old now – I was taught in school, and even in Sunday school, that there were places in the world where a person could be jailed for speaking out against their government. There were books, including the Bible, there people were not allowed to possess. They had to hide to worship the way they wanted to. Both of my parents served in the US Army during WW2. Thankfully neither saw combat, but my uncle did. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge. I was well aware of the war and the reason for it. I did not understand how that man, Hitler, could be so evil. How did he gain such power? I read The Diary of Ann Frank and right to the end I expected a happy outcome. How could such a horrible thing occur? How could millions of Jews be rounded up, put in concentration camps, and killed for no reason but their heritage. They were different, and most importantly not white. It was all so horrible. And frightening...